I was so glad to read a great article today. I don't get many people agreeing with some of my views, but it did.

I currently believe that people's obsession with making ever-increasing kinds of behaviour 'unacceptable' is simply creating a more Right-wing society. Another thing that is helping the Right-wing is the constant effort to accuse senior people in law, science etc... Read More

Nations are like religions and corporations. Their biggest 'contribution' to our lives is to allow us to disregard our own moral compasses and let terrible things happen. Everything becomes 'someone else's problem'.

Nations are simply the wrong mechanism for preventing climate change, financial meltdowns, refugee crises and much more. And - most currently - Western nations are completely playing into ISIS's hands by failing to... Read More

I loved being at Carpenter Brut's synthwave gig in London last night (Camden Underworld). Their finale cover version of the Flashdance movie's classic song 'Maniac' still has me pumped! See below for videos of last night and the original.

But did you know Maniac was originally written with horror in mind? http://artcityrecords.com/4-songs-with-bizarre-inspirations-and-origins/ says:

A lot of left-wing and 'liberal left' people (I consider myself one) are starting to embrace attitudes that I normally associate with their political enemies.

(To clarify. I mean liberal in the pleasant philosophical sense i.e. letting people be able to express and do what they want to do (within reason). Not in the neo-conservative market-oriented sense of letting rich people get what they... Read More

I'm not necessarily tying to "help" animals. At one point when i had my own house and the property to do so I definitely was. But right now its just a matter of my personal animals, who have already been consolidated.
I understand what you are saying, however I am not trying to save any animals, just keep the ones i still have! hah